The world stands on the brink of failure when it comes to holding global warming to moderate levels, and nations will need to take "unprecedented" actions to cut their carbon emissions over the next decade, according to a landmark report…

Washington: NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft has entered the planet's magnetosphere, where the movement of particles in space is controlled by what's going on inside Jupiter.Juno is on course to swing into orbit around Jupiter on July 4."We've just crossed the…

Washington: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular fireworks display in a small, nearby galaxy, which resembles a skyrocket.A team of astronomers found that a firestorm of star birth is lighting up one end of the diminutive galaxy Kiso…

New York: Based on an analysis of cooling rate and the composition of lava deposits on Mercury's surface, a team of geologists has found that the planet likely has the composition of an enstatite chondrite -- a type of meteorite…

New York: Scientists at the US space agency NASA have discovered tridymite -- an unexpected silica mineral in a rock sample at Gale Crater on Mars that may alter our understanding of how the Red Planet evolved.NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory…

New York: A strong "electric wind" may have played a significant role in stripping Venus, Earth's twin planet, of its oceans, says a new study by NASA and University College London researchers.Venus has an "electric wind" strong enough to remove…

Tokyo: In a first, an international team of astronomers has found firm evidence of the presence of oxygen in the early universe -- only 700 million years after the Big Bang.Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile,…

London: The same asteroid that killed the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago also wiped out over 90 per cent of mammal species, significantly more than previously thought, new research has found.Following the asteroid hit, most of…

Berlin: A team of astronomers using data from the La Silla observatory in Chile found that planets known as "hot Jupiters" are more common in a star cluster in the constellation of Cancer than around stars outside clusters.Hot Jupiters are…

Washington: Our Earth has got a small companion. NASA scientists have discovered a tiny asteroid in an orbit around the Sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth and will remain so for centuries to come.As it orbits…